Suffocation

Climate change, mass urbanisation, synthetic biology. The human impact on our planet can hardly be underestimated. We created a complex system which grows in artificial manners. Is the artificial for the better? Do we still have grip on our own creations?

In the Western world it has become more and more normal  to have a burn-out at some point in your life. People falling out of their jobs left, right and center. Not showing frustration at work, suppressing irritation, not letting emotions flow had caused serious physical and mental sickness to many in the western world. For example, over the last decades serious depression and anxiety have risen every year in the western world.¹ If we look at the etymology of the word depression, we find that it originates from the latin verb deprimere, which means “to press down” ². To press down our emotions is what we learn from a child's age on. As a child I would physically get hot when I was angry and my mom would put me under a cold shower to cool me down. With all the traumatic consequences that gave me anger attacks later in life. whether it is because we don’t feel seen or heard in our relationships, or because we are lonely, we are having a job that is unfulfilling, or because of not being in a natural environment much, not having the sense that you can make a chance, suppressing emotions has serious consequences on the quality of living.

¹ [TED]. (2019, October 11). This could be why you’re depressed or anxious | Johann Hari [Video]. YouTube. Retrieved October 3, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5IX-np5fE² Oxford Languages and Google - English | Oxford Languages. (2022, August 12). Retrieved October 8, 2022, from https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/